J. Paul Getty Quotes
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.
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I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.
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I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
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Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.
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I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from that of Upper Palaeolithic people, and that this distinction precluded, for the Neanderthals, both image-making and elaborate burial.
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
